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by addicted 2y ago
A lot of people in the tech industry in the U.S. are on visas. Including a lot of the YC co-founders. Not only is this relevant to Tech, it’s relevant to YC tech. At the very least it’s as relevant as the regular immigration lawyer AMAs.
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by addicted 2y ago
> No money is exchanged when I promote my own product through my own channels This is not really advertising, but it’s not really a problem either. People expect you to promote your own products and take it with the grain of salt they sh
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by addicted 2y ago
This is a gross misunderstanding of what a currency actually is. A currency is a social construct. It has no inherent value beyond what people who trade in it place on the currency. As a result people don’t want a currency whose rules of tr
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by addicted 2y ago
Where does the Russian company get its Philippine Peso from? Russia overall may have exported some stuff to Philippines but it’s a huge country. The specific company would now need to find a way to acquire a highly illiquid currency availab
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by addicted 2y ago
There are both hard and soft reasons for this. Hard reason: Oil was traded in U.S. dollars. This was basically built off America’s status as the only open superpower and its military strength. Soft reasons: U.S. political stability (yeah, i
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by addicted 2y ago
> Right now Europe's own companies just ignore the statutes to keep their US trade. If it’s the trade keeping EU companies in line, isn’t the destruction of trade that these tariffs are intended to achieve precisely the kind of thin
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by addicted 2y ago
The problem is that the truth, that this was some haphazard nonsense thrown together at the last second using some ChatGPT prompts, is hard to believe, so people try to insert rationality where it doesn’t exist.
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by addicted 2y ago
Europeans have a lot of alternatives to American services, including building out their own. What Europeans truly lack is the ability to defend itself without the U.S. They have the technical know how and can build the manufacturing capaci
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by addicted 2y ago
Yeah, but the U.S. govt funds a lot of important research so it may not fall behind technologically unlike India… Wait, what did you just say? The U.S. government has decimated its research funding? Oh, well, at least the U.S. has a lot of
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by addicted 2y ago
Why don’t you look up how they came up with those tariff numbers and come back and tell us that this is some sophisticated economics at play here.
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by addicted 2y ago
That’s fine. All those H1Bs will go back to their home countries, work for the same companies at a fraction of the salary and instead of paying taxes and rent and other expenses in the US will pay in their home countries. And when they are
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by addicted 2y ago
This is a step in the right direction. I worry it’s about 12 years too late. The decision to reduce focus on Thunderbird was remarkably mistimed with the email client market just shooting through the roof with a bunch of orivate players bei
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by addicted 2y ago
Also, the last new Tesla model not including the Cybertruck has been many years ago.
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by addicted 2y ago
How many countries has the U.S. annexed in the last 80 years? You’re completely wrong. But even if you were right that the U.S. was simply applying its foreign policy to its “sphere of influence”, surely even you can see the immense foolish
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by addicted 2y ago
People were literally sent to El Salvador against a court order stopping the government from doing so. Where’s the exaggeration? Also, the quotes you’ve excerpted do not mention due process even once, but do in fact mention that those peopl
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by addicted 2y ago
Tourism is gonna be hit. Education is gonna be hit (especially if the rumors that the US is canceling hundreds of student visas as we speak for crimes such as liking certain tweets). Exports are gonna be hit thanks to tariffs in raw mater
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by addicted 2y ago
Lots of countries do call them import taxes, or import duties, or just duties. That’s where the term “duty free” that you see in airports comes from. But I guess until a certain influential individual started lying about tariffs, this wasn’
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by addicted 2y ago
The Mennonite community that is the center of this measles outbreak is particularly famous for growing their own food. Also, germ theory WTF.
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by addicted 2y ago
What is the lesson here?
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by addicted 2y ago
USA/Greenland was never a land dispute. In fact, people thought it was a joke all the times he mentioned it. So if it does become a real thing, it sets the stage for new “disputes” to be created, which aren’t actually disputes but larg
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by addicted 2y ago
The natural pendulum swing of “Rs get in govt, f things up, so people get mad at them, elect Dems, who largely stabilize things, and so people forget they got mad at the Rs because they f’ed things up, reelect them because they’re better at
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by addicted 2y ago
There’s so much survivor bias in these comments. We know what happens when ADHD is underdiagnosed and not recognized in society (which requires it to be labeled appropriately). You have scores of children who get labeled as “problematic” or
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by addicted 2y ago
Considering ADHD is poorly understood, historically highly underdiagnosed and significantly prevalent it’s not surprising there’s a lot of content about trying to to understand it for both people with and without ADHD.
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by addicted 2y ago
> What do you get out of Next.js over vanilla React? The biggest problem is that React itself recommends against using Vanilla React. https://react.dev/learn/creating-a-react-app > If you want to build a new app
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by addicted 2y ago
If that’s the case then the likelihood of the remaining net assets being worth more than $8/share are even lower.
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by addicted 2y ago
Which is still gonna be significantly worse than the $8/share offered. If the value of assets after paying off debtors is > $8/share, then that’s the easiest arbitrage opportunity considering it’s currently trading at $1.80. Ju
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by addicted 2y ago
Long time immigration lawyers are not randomly advising their clients to not travel outside the U.S. and to use burner phones if they do. The threat is real and elevated.
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by addicted 2y ago
Tesla’s stock is valued on the basis of the self driving tech. That’s slated to be out this summer, but the insiders are certainly not behaving as if it will be. In fact, they’re acting exactly as one would if they expect it to be delete on
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by addicted 2y ago
So your recommendation is that instead of picking a system that is simple to implement and understand and has been successfully implemented in multiple cities across the world (and now in NYC as well) they should have opted for a novel syst
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by addicted 2y ago
True but in most of the country even the poorest have to drive. In Manhattan only 22% of households own a car, and the number is probably a fraction of that in the congestion relief zone.

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